I mostly enjoyed this season. There have been ups and downs, but even season 1 wasn't always impeccable so I'm fine with this. It's still easily the show currently on TV I am most excited to tune into every single time it's on. I didn't enjoy the finale as much as I hoped, but it overall it's a solid finisher, though there have been a couple weak spots. In particular, it's great that we got a "canon" response as to why the narrative was scrambled, in that Bernard's memories were scrambled, but in the end I don't feel this added a whole lot to the narrative. The flood at the end, Dolores getting shot, etc. would have all been a lot more meaningful had they just happened, without seeing those outcomes earlier. Seeing a good share of Westworld drown in a flood (even though the hosts inside were already "dead") would have been rather epic, but not so much when we knew it'll happen 9 episodes earlier.
My main problem, at this point, is that we're way too much into the unreliable narrator thing. Let's recap what happened so far and what we can expect in the future in this sense. We know timelines are scrambled: just because we see a scene after another it doesn't mean they are subsequential: in fact, they could be decades apart without the show doing a lot to explicitly state it (minimum differences in season 1, better hints in season 2). There is a digital world where all hosts (and some humans, apparently) exist as copies. A lot of humans are recreated as physical or virtual hosts. Bodies can be recreated. Hosts can be reanimated. Humans can be reanimated by inserting their "mind" into a host. Hosts can switch bodies (Halores). The viewer sees things that aren't real to human eyes, like the door to the Valley Beyond and Ford in Bernard's head.
There is one major problem with this if the producers don't calm down with the craziness: literally everything we watch could be bullshit at this point. Oh that superimportant scene? Lol it was a dream 30 years ago. That revelation in a dialogue? The character this guy was talking to was only in its head. Oh these two girls are up to something? It really isn't them, it's just some other host in their cloned bodies. We've seen unrefutable proof of a theory in Delos' official documents? That was only something Ford programmed a host to see, and the viewer saw through the hosts' eyes despite this never being mentioned specifically. We basically reached a point where literally nothing we see can potentially be trusted. I really hope season 3 will be more grounded in this sense, I don't want to wonder at every single scene who's a human, what timeline is this, which character is real or not, who's in whose body, and so on.
